Saad el-Shazly

Saad el-Shazly (1 April 1922-10 February 2011) was the Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Army during the Yom Kippur War.

Biography
Saad el-Shazly was born on 1 April 1922 in Basyoun, Gharbia, Egypt, and he entered the Egyptian Army in 1942 during World War II. Shazly was a veteran of numerous wars with Israel, beginning with the First Arab-Israeli War of 1948 and continuing with the Suez Crisis, War of Attrition, and the Yom Kippur War, during which he served as Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Army. He equipped Egyptian soldiers in preparation for the attack on the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai at the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, but he was dismissed a week into the conflict. In 1978, after he criticized the Camp David Accords, he was dismissed as ambassador to the United Kingdom and went into exile in Algeria. He returned to Egypt later in his life, and he died in Cairo in 2011.